interest rates

To say it has been a challenging period for bonds would be an understatement. In fact, the first quarter of this year saw the worst start to a calendar year in...

Australian home values are now shrinking at an annualised rate that exceeds 15% based on the three months of CoreLogic compositionally-adjusted index data to 10...

CoreLogic have just released their official housing data for the entire month of August 2022, which confirms what we feared: both the 5 capital city and 8 capital...

The great Aussie housing collapse continues to break new records with CoreLogic's 5 capital city index losing more than 1.44% in the first 29 days of August, which...

Riding the wave There is a lot of noise in the market now, with inflation numbers coming in at around 6% in Australia and closer to 8% in the USA. Although interest...

Sydney prices are on track for another, truly massive, circa 2% per month decline according to CoreLogic data. They fell 2.2% in July, the worst outcome in around 40...

After the most recent FOMC meeting, we have seen numerous changes to forward probabilities within the fixed income market. This article aims to provide investors...

China Stimulus: This week the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) cut their benchmark monetary policy interest rate by 5 basis points to 3.65% (and reduced the 5-year...

In the AFR I write that this column been much more constructive on risk since late May when we determined that interest rate markets were finally pricing in the...

For all the hubbub of inflation being the kryptonite of markets, very few of us realised that it would be rising rates that would really do the trick.  Since the RBA...

There has been an interesting development in the month of August vis-a-vis the burgeoning Aussie house price collapse. We have carefully demonstrated how the...

Amid the "earnings recession" that was predicted by much of the market, there's one ASX-listed company that is set to grow its earnings by 55% in the next financial...

While the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates by another 50 basis points this week for a record third consecutive meeting in a row, long-term interest rates...

August is fast approaching and with it comes the reveal of many long-awaited year-end earnings reports. It's our first chance to see how some of our favourite ASX...

As global markets brace for ongoing uncertainty caused by higher inflation and rising interest rates, bonds offer investors certainty through regular coupon payments...

Home values in Brisbane are slowly rolling over and following in the footsteps of house prices in Sydney and Melbourne, where the losses continue to accelerate. With...

As a result of the RBA's extraordinary decision to hammer unsuspecting households with a staggering 125 basis points of mortgage rate hikes in the space of just two...

Inflationary pressures have been stubbornly persistent in most economies this year given COVID-19 supply chain disruptions, labour shortages and energy price...

In my last wire two weeks ago, I argued that inflation was a rear-view mirror story. Since then, you’ve seen further data on the macro front that that is indeed...

Sadly, the RBA is a little unhinged right now. It is mindlessly repeating mistakes it made both before and after the pandemic, the essence of which is predicating...